Hi everybody,

Not had alot of time to spend on the site, as I have been busy preparing to move house, hopefully in the next few weeks.

This is the wall hanging I started at a workshop held by one of our experienced group members.

I have embellished the flowers and leaves with abit of free motion embroidery - boy was I scared, but I think the effects are quite pleasing.
I will post a couple of more when I have finished it completely, as I might do abit more embroidery and bead work on it, what do you think??

Great job! Love the 3-D work.

Thats lovely........you can add more or not, you did great :D

Izy! tan bonita!! sooo pretty. You always do such beautiful work!! The 3-D flowers are awesome!

You did a fabulous job!

Wow!! Now that's a work of art! I could look at that for a long time. I'd be clueless as to where to begin.

Very pretty. I love the 3d flowers. Thanks for sharing.

Izy that is absolutely FABULOUS !!!

absolutely beautiful! THANK YOU for sharing.

Beautiful work---the background (border fabric) is just PERFECT!

Beautiful and fantastic :!: :!: :!: :-) :-) Pam W.

:shock: I can't come up with better words than already said!

WOW I love all the applique and beadwork! Awesome job! :D

Yowza! That's beautiful! Love the batiks!!!

M

Thanks girls for your encouraging comments!

This design was taken from a book called "Art Nouveau Quilts for the 21st century" by Bea Oglesby, infact its on the front cover. But if any of you have this book, you can see I altered it quite alot, changing the leaf design and making 4 of the flowers 3d and making 3d centres for all the other flowers. I like to play about and make it my own lol!! I used filmoplast stabilizer behind the whole backing piece of fabric, so I could stitch the stems etc. with the intention of removing it afterwards - But I learnt a big lesson - although the filmoplast is repositionable Don't iron it!! As it becomes permanent if you do, as I found out!! So I spent quite a while using a teasle brush softening up and removing as much of the stabilizer as I could in the areas inbetween the stems etc. where I wanted to free motion meander. All told, this is what I enjoy so much, finding ways around obstacles - thats how I learn!! The 3D flowers were steam a seamed to fabric then stuck to filmoplast and satin stitched around the outline, and trimmed close afterwards. Thanks again for your lovely comments.

Awesome, I love applique, and I like how you incorporate different techs. into it!

Izy, You've made a lovely quilt! I love all your embellishments. They look great.

Izy, its beautiful...I can only hope that someday I can do something that pretty. Well..I'll add it to my hope to do someday list! Great job!

Izy, That is just gorgeous!! Beautiful choice of material & I love the 3-D effect too!!

That is incredibly beautiful. Fantastic colours. Gorgeous design. Great work! I love it.

WOW! This quilt is beautiful.

Kyia

Very nice. I love the batik fabric....great choice of colors. Congratulations; you put alot of time and energy into the piece and it shows. GiGi :) :-) :D

nice 3-D quilt

so much work! i just love it and the fabric you chose to use just showcases beautifully!

Is there a pattern to share? Ditto to all the comments. One fabulous quilt.

Oh my! I wish I could do that!